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Owls Wood Cottage Newsells Village Barkway Royston SG8 8DE

05/00388/1HHFull Permission HouseholderApproved
Householder

Approved on 20 May 2005

Council decision: Conditional PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Single storey side and rear extensions. Installation of new window within thatch on south elevation. Rebuilding of retaining wall with additional section and steps

Received
7 March 2005
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ermine Ward
  1. Received7 Mar
  2. Validated7 Mar
  3. Consult.29 Mar
  4. Target2 May
  5. Decided20 May

Decided in 74 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an extension at Owls Wood Cottage Newsells Village Barkway Royston SG8 8DE. North Hertfordshire has handled 2,848 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 4 weeks longer than North Hertfordshire's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 138 applications across Ermine Ward. We hold 2,703 applications in total for the SG8 postcode area.

92% of full applications at North Hertfordshire District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SG8 8DE
Application type
Full Permission Householder
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Barkway Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 March 2005
Consultation expiry
29 March 2005
Consultation end
29 March 2005
Last date for comments
15 April 2005
Target decision date
2 May 2005

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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Associated applications

  1. 2005
    7 Mar

    Single storey side and rear extensions. Installation of new window within thatch on south elevation…

    This applicationApprovedFull05/00388/1HH
  2. 2005
    7 Mar

    Single storey side and rear extensions. Installation of new window within thatch on south elevation and…

    Conditional ConsentListed building consentFiled alongside05/00389/1LB

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